Directors' Dealings

Barclays PLC
1 December 1999


Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act s329


The trustees of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share
Ownership Trust (the 'Quest') notified the Company on 29
November 1999 that they subscribed on 26 November 1999
for a total of 140,581 Barclays PLC ordinary shares at a
price of 1952p per share.  Following this transaction,
the trustees of the Quest held a total of 140,581
Barclays PLC ordinary shares in which the following
directors of Barclays PLC had an interest as potential
beneficiaries: Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Mr D
P Allvey, Sir Andrew Large, Mr C J Lendrum and Mr J S
Varley.  (The Quest is a trust established to distribute
shares to employees of the Barclays Group on the exercise
of options granted under the Barclays PLC 1991 SAYE Share
Option Scheme (the 'Scheme').)

The trustees of the Quest also notified the Company on 29
November 1999 that they had transferred on 26 November
1999 140,581 Barclays PLC ordinary shares to participants
in the Scheme following the exercise of their options.
Following this transaction, each of the directors listed
above ceased to have an interest in such shares.